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How do I download YouTube videos that require a login? #26142

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Rekrullurker opened this issue Jul 28, 2020 · 2 comments
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How do I download YouTube videos that require a login? #26142

Rekrullurker opened this issue Jul 28, 2020 · 2 comments

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@Rekrullurker
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@Rekrullurker Rekrullurker commented Jul 28, 2020

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I want to download this video;

https://youtube.com/watch?v=-z9ARpndyGo

Apparently it's age restricted because YouTube-DL can't download it. Neither can any of the download sites that I normally fall back on.

I tried using the --username= option, it asked for my password and then reported an error of being unable to look up account information. So that doesn't work. Yes, I tried it multiple times to be sure the name and password were correct.

The documentation say that you can pass cookies to YouTube-DL, but they have to be in a conforming format. Unfortunately the only browser that will still load YouTube for me is Opera and none of the extensions I could find will export to anything other than a "JSON" file. I've tried three different extensions that claim they will export cookies to a text file and none of them have created anything that YouTube-DL will accept.

How do I download this video?

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@Sembiance Sembiance commented Jul 28, 2020

@dstftw dstftw closed this Jul 28, 2020
@dstftw dstftw added the duplicate label Jul 28, 2020
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@a-raccoon a-raccoon commented Aug 4, 2020

Need an issue number / solution number to this duplicate issue. Can open up a new issue to collect this information if that's required.

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